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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Travel
Lucy Thackray

Couple suffers 36-hour detour after Ryanair flight ‘lands on wrong Canary Island’

Martyn Gray

A British couple say it took them an additional 36 hours to reach their holiday destination after their Ryanair flight “landed on the wrong Canary Island”.

Martyn Gray and Emma Gatenby, from Darlington, were due to fly from Newcastle Airport to Gran Canaria on 25 September with the budget airline, for a short four-day break in the sun.

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